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Ahmad Izzat al-Abid (1855-1924) was one of the Ottoman Empire's men at the end of the period and was a model for those who are described as men of reform in times of collapse. On the official level, he was a prominent example of the Arab who reached advanced positions in the Ottoman regime. Although he was accused of joining the Arabs in the era of Sultan Abdul Hamid, he was a reformed and balanced statesman who enabled the state to control the economy and accomplish many modern civil reforms, including the Hijaz railway and lightning lines.
In political terms, he assisted Sultan Abdul Hamid in pursuing a policy that would reduce the bloc of European countries against his country. On the level of the press, he was known as the founder of the Damascus newspaper and one of the editors in the official Syrian newspaper. In my book "The History of the Press", followed by Zirkali (in the book of the media), it is attributed to Ibn Muhyi al-Din Abul-Hul (the famous Hulu Pasha) Ibn Omar Agha Ibn Abdul Qadir Agha Ibn Muhammad Agha Ibn Qais Al-Abed is a member of an Arab tribe The tribe of «loyal» and live tents in the desert of the Levant between Zor and Palmyra, and belong to the tribe «Bakr ibn Wael» Hijaz al-Qurashi.
Ahmed Ezzat El Abed was born in Damascus. His father, Hulu Pasha, was a senior official of the Ottoman government. The son received an education that brought together the religious and civil elements. His father provided him with excellent educational opportunities and read in his youth to the sheikhs Abdul Rahman al-Esnawi, Ahmad al-Shatti, He taught French, English and Arabic in one of the missions and at the hands of private tutors in his father's house. He then joined the Patriarchal School in Beirut, where he mastered French and studied Sheikh Nassif El Yazji, who was a distinguished professor. Ahmed Ezzat Al-Abed began his career in an administrative position in the State of Syria in the Turkish Intelligence Registry. He was elected as the head of the pen and the Arab intelligence secretary in 1873, and the Arabic and Turkish sections were published in the Syrian newspaper. About the Ottoman Empire.
| " Ahmed Ezzat Al-Abed was one of the most respected men of the Ottoman Empire to carry out the economic and urban reforms. He was patient, wise and able to manage affairs efficiently and with the lowest costs. " |
He was appointed as a writer for the Board of Directors of the State of Syria (1876). In 1979, he was elected President of the Court of Law, then General Supervisor of the courts in the states of Syria, Beirut and Jerusalem. He was appointed to reform the affairs of the Mount Lebanon courts. Konya, however, apologized for accepting her, before serving as the chief inspector of the Selonic courts. In 1885, he was appointed head of the capital's first criminal court, then head of its appellate court, and two months as chief of the civil and mixed trade courts, a position he held for six years. Resolve issues that had foreign frames (1891). He was appointed member of all the financial committees and appointed head of the Committee of Immigrants to the Ottoman Empire for 13 years until the Ottoman coup (1908). London first, then to Egypt, Switzerland, France and England.
Ahmed Ezzat al-Abed was one of the most respected men of the Ottoman Empire to carry out economic and architectural reforms. He was patient, wise, and able to manage affairs efficiently and at the lowest cost, so that the Ottoman Empire almost ceased to borrow money from abroad. In the field of structural civilizational reforms, Abed began his steps by establishing telegraphs from Benghazi to Tripoli, west, and then set up a wireless line for the telegraph between Kalma Mesh in the state of Izmir and between Benghazi in Tripoli and the West, so it was easy for the capital of the Ottoman Empire to contact its territories in North Africa Damascus and Madinah. He himself donated the most of the pillars of the line and used what the good people donated in Damascus.
When the Indian telegraph company asked for a license to provide a separate line of Telegraphic Intelligence between Europe and the Far East with the right to control it, it refused to grant it the privilege and completed work on state resources in less than a month. As head of the Committee on Migrants (no more than eighteen months), he established more than forty villages and housed some 50,000 immigrants, most of them in the states of Syria and Aleppo. In 1900, some state ministers asked for a loan to perform a portion of the debt. He opposed and relied on austerity measures that arranged the debts of the ministry. His influence on Sultan Abdul Hamid helped him to empower the Arabs in jobs.
Ahmed Ezzat Al-Abed was well-known for his welfare and social reform. He built his own hospital in Madinah, a hospital for 50 patients, a shelter for fifty families, and a school in Medina for 200 children
Ahmed Ezzat al-Abed was the owner of the idea of extending the railways in the Arab countries. He conducted the feasibility studies and explained the size of the dangers and the political and economic damage. The Sultan authorized him to start work while he did not complete financial or technical expertise or sources of funding. It was planned to extend two lines from Madinah to Mecca, Jeddah, Sanaa and Yemen, and to Basra, but he was unable to do so. Because of the mutation coup Mani I (1908), and as the city line was introduced electrified lighting to Medina.
Ahmed Ezzat Abed was fluent in Arabic, Turkish, French and English. The book "The Rights of States" by Hassan Fahmi Pasha, and the first volume of the "History of Jawdat Pasha" were translated from Turkish into Arabic, as well as the book "The Legal Rulings in Personal Status" from Arabic to Turkish. Ahmed Ezzat al-Abed was well-known for his welfare and social reform. He built a hospital for 50 patients in Medina and a shelter for 50 families. He also established a school in Medina for 200 children and made these buildings registered in Astana and in the Sharia Court in Cairo.
Ahmed Ezzat Al-Abed received a lot of honor and appreciation. He won the fourth rank during the reign of Rashed Pasha, the ruler of Syria. He was awarded the rank of "Bala" with the "First Majid Medal." Then he received the "Ottoman Medal" The Telegraph in the West Tripoli, and the "Majid Al-Majedi Medal" upon completion of the lightning lines of Kuwait, Europe and Damascus. Madinah Al Munawwarah, and the slogan of "the proud pride" after its success in the establishment of the villages to accommodate the immigrants. When the Hijazi railway ended, With the gold and silver medals, and so on Ahmed Ezzat Abed All the Ottoman honors. Zarkali said he died in Cairo, and that his body was transferred to Damascus.